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bobbish, a. dial. and slang.|ˈbɒbɪʃ|
[Cf. bob a., bob v.3]
Well; in good health and spirits.
1780R. Tomlinson Slang Pastoral 3, I was so good-natur'd, so bobbish and gay. 1813[cf. bobbishly]. 1819Scott in Lockhart xliv. (1842) 394, I trust you will find me pretty bobbish. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. lvii, ‘The cows is well, and the boys is bobbish.’ 1851De Quincey Ld. Carlisle on Pope Wks. XIII. 5 Finding himself ‘pretty bobbish’ on the morning after the memorable night in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1862Trollope Rachel Ray II. xiii. 268 Pretty bobbish, thankee, Mr. Rowan; and how's yourself? 1928Galsworthy Swan Song iii. vi. 258 He did not feel so ‘bobbish’ before this third encounter with that fellow.
Hence ˈbobbishly adv. Well, fairly, briskly.
1813Scott in Lockhart x. (Chandos) 223 The book has gone off here very bobbishly. 1819― ibid. xlv. IV. 285 You will find me looking pretty bobbishly. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas xxix. 304 ‘Oh, so you know about that, too?’ She laughed, though not too bobbishly. |